Sawndip character liuq

It represents a Zhuang word for looking.

The entry gives its reading as liuq, in Zhuang’s Latin-letter spelling. In Sawndip, the older square-character script, 𭾙 writes that word.

What is the history of 𭾙?

It belongs to a traditional Zhuang writing system.

Sawndip adapted Han-character shapes, sounds and meanings to write Zhuang; it developed over time rather than through a single invention. The earliest known surviving evidence for the tradition is a 682 Tang-era stone inscription in Guangxi; it dates Sawndip, not 𭾙 itself. A 1989 dictionary of old Zhuang characters records 𭾙 as liuq. Sawndip appears in local songs, ritual texts, stories and records, with forms varying by region. A Latin-based Zhuang orthography was introduced in 1955 and revised in the 1980s.